CISN Display

The CISN is pleased to announce the availability of CISN Display version 1.31
released on August 30, 2006. Improvements include:
Web Services middleware that allows data to get through firewalls; improved
layers, including more detailed coastlines; integrated e-mail capability; new
event sorting options; and a "T" for events for which a
tsunami warning has been generated.
The CISN has 4 servers online to
provide reliable access to earthquake information.

The CISN has also implemented a login service
on the available QuakeWatch servers. This change is to ensure that the
CISN will be able to manage system resources so that critical users in
the emergency response community will have access to the data.

Request an account: If your organization
doesn't already have an account, please fill out the form to request
an account. Your request will be reviewed, typically within 1-2 business
days. You will receive an initial email to confirm your email address,
and then a follow-up email when your request is reviewed.

Create a user account: Once
approved, you will be sent a registration code. You will use the registration
code to create a user account for yourself. The registration code
is valid for up to 3 users within your organization, so you may share
it with appropriate staff. (Note, the number of users for an organization
may be added as needed).

Maintain your account: Here
we provide the tools for you to manage your organization's account,
including maintaining your profile and providing access to other users
in your organization. You may also download CISN Display and related
programs such as the QuakeWatch Emailer and the QuakeWatch server programs.

If you have been Beta-testing CISN Display, please follow the steps below:

Request an account: If your organization
doesn't already have an account, please fill out the form to request
an account. Your request will be approved, typically within 1-2 business
days. You will receive an initial email to confirm your email address,
and then a follow-up email when your request is approved.

Create a user account: Once
approved, you will be sent a registration code. You will use the registration
code to create a user account for yourself. The registration code
is valid for up to 3 users within your organization, so you may share
it with appropriate staff. (Note, the number of users for an organization
may be added as needed).

Maintain your account: Here
we provide the tools for you to manage your organization's account,
including maintaining your profile and providing access to other users
in your organization. You may also download CISN Display and related
programs such as the QuakeWatch Emailer and the QuakeWatch server programs.

If you already have registered and created an account, you may:

Maintain your account:
Here we provide the tools for you to manage your organizations
account, including maintaining your profile and providing access
to other users in your organization. You may also download CISN
Display and related programs such as the

In addition to CISN Display, other related software packages are
available to CISN Display users. These packages may be downloaded
from the CISN Displayuser account pages.

QuakeWatch Emailer:QuakeWatch Emailer is a package that allows
users to configure personalized earthquake notification. Similar to
CISN Display, it relies on the QuakeWatch servers to distribute earthquake
notifications. Users can configure the software to provide earthquake
notifications for in multiple areas and various magnitude ranges.

Users may wish to use CISN Display in order to easily define notifcation boundaries.
See the help within the QuakeWatch Emailer program.

Note: At this time, QuakeWatch Emailer is not fully
compatible with the new login services. Please check back early
in 2005, when we expect to have the email capabilites integrated
in CISN Display.

QuakeWatch relay server: Organizations with particularly restrictive
firewalls may wish to install a local QuakeWatch server within their
organization. The QuakeWatch server software can be used to support multiple
instances of CISN Display within an organization, with a single connection
through the firewall.

In addition to these resources, we have established a listserve
on CISN Display. Interested users are invited to join the listserve
and share ideas, suggestions, and experience in using the software.
You may register to receive email messages or just browse the archive.

Listed below are publicly available GIS layers that may be plotted
on the CISN Display interface. These layers were compiled through
the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS),
Mapping Center and the TransStats
2002 Transportation Database. The list of layers (where
available) are grouped by FEMA region, which cover all 50 states and
US territories. These layers include the following infrastructure
and political boundaries, and are packaged together in a single zip
file.

County Lines

Major Roadways

Major Railways

Airport Runways

Federal-aid Urban Areas

The grouping of layers into federally recognized regions is done
as a convenience to the emergency response community.
However, all users are welcome to download their own
sets of GIS layers from the publicly accessible
US Census Bureau website
. Furthermore, if users have additional organizational layers
that are compliant with the CISN Display's open source mapping tool,
then those layers may also be plotted for display on the map
interface. Instructions for uploading new layers
to the map interface may be found in the CISN Display's User's
Guide, under section 4.2.7 "Adding a New Layer".